Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: AQOUm, 750 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 41 Mb

Image ID: AQOU

Credit:	by Smith (William M.)
Date:	1865.08
Negative Size:	8 in. x 10 in.
Equipment:	12-pounder Napoleon gun; cannon; cap box; field carriage; handspike (wood); limber; sponge and rammer staff; sponge bucket
Locations & Lines:	Fort Totten (Washington DC); Washington DC; District of Columbia
Military Units:	3rd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery; US Army
Sources:	Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: District of Columbia. Men and gun of 3d Massachusetts Heavy Artillery at ornamental gate of Fort Totten.

The MOLLUS Collection says: Sallyport of Fort Totten. 3d Mass. Heavy Artillery. August, 1865.

Etched onto negative: Sergts. in Sally Port For Totten Aug’t 1865. 3d Mass Hy Arty. WMS. No. 21.